{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/lerc\/","author_name":"Lerc","cat":"LD #08 - Swarms - 2006","categories":["LD #08 - Swarms - 2006"],"comments":[],"epoch":1196279940,"event":"LD8","likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"75776","p_author":"Lerc","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"283467","p_title":"Teeny Tiny Ninja","p_cat":"LD #08 - Swarms - 2006","p_event":"LD10","p_time":"1196279940","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1197590400","event_key":"88","event_name":"LD10"},"source_url":"2007\/11\/28\/teeny-tiny-ninja\/","text":"

I was quite pleased with how this one worked out, The game only has three levels and I was quite worried that the last level might be impossible. As time was running out on the clock I was trying to figure out if it could be done, I finally got a single ninja home and went \u201cthat\u2019s it! ship it!\u201d.<\/p>\n

playing post compo I actually managed to figure out how to get all of the ninja home on that level by using a few tricks.<\/p>\n

\"Teeny<\/a><\/p>\n

I also liked the look of Teeny Tiny Ninja. I got the stars idea from a previous Bluescrn entry. Adding a bunch of stars does indeed liven up the look of things. Also The ninja home came out surprisingly well for programmer art. I thought the sound worked well too, but the scores the game got suggested I was in the minority. when a ninja goes \u2018Hut!\u2019 every time he jumps it\u2019s cool, but people found it less so when there were a couple of hundred Ninja doing it, serves themselves right for picking swarms as the theme I say.<\/p>\n

The game used a homebrew physics engine made during the 48 hours. this worked quite nicely, Ninja were all implemented as tiny triangles<\/p>\n

\"Ninja<\/a><\/p>\n

See. There was no Line to object collision detection so it was possible for Ninja to get stuck on corners by impailing themselves on a point and having their triangle points go either side. There were alsdo a few other little quirks that caused th ninja to get stuck. The solution worked brilliantly. I checked to see if a ninja hadn\u2019t moved for a while and if so just added a huge random vector to its movement. A lot of people took this to be an intentional behaviour because it looked very ninja like. sometimes a ninja would jump to a wall or point and stick there for a bit then jump away again.<\/p>\n

Once again the controls were a bit unintuitive. But I thought the use of a mousewheel worked well.<\/p>\n

Download the game<\/a><\/p>\n

Tags: final<\/a>, ninja<\/a><\/p>","time":"November 28th, 2007 7:59 pm","title":"Teeny Tiny Ninja"}